The Impossible, Beautiful World of William Schaff

William Schaff makes beautiful art. The Rhode Island-based artist and musician is best known for his album covers for bands such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Okkervil River, but…

Matt Lerner and Walk Score: Put a Number on It

In 2007, Walk Score appeared out of nowhere and built a way of looking at the world that was so useful and intuitive as to become, at once, completely manifest…

CEO David Howitt and the Journey for Purpose and Meaning

David Howitt is engaged with the stuff that’s hard to pin down. The Founder and CEO of Meriwether Group, a private equity, business accelerator, and advisory firm headquartered in Portland,…

Lance Bangs on Not Making the Same, Boring Thing

Lance Bangs, an accomplished artist, filmmaker, documentarian, producer, and music video director, mines intimate space. He collects ephemeral, essentially impossible to capture moments and turns them into artifacts. There’s surprise…

Kevin Allison and the Personal Power of Story

Listening to RISK! is like eavesdropping on a bunch of eclectic, courageous storytellers hanging out in front of a fire, where the curves — and there are always curves —…

Andrew Dickson and the Astounding Art of Encouragement

It’s challenging enough to express yourself across one medium, much less two. Andrew Dickson, a Portland, Oregon-based artist, father, and polymath, however, has developed outlets of personal expression across multiple…